In 1897, Arcade Cotton Mills started up in Rock Hill, SC. The Catawba Dam at Indian Hook Shoals on the Catawba River transmitted power to the mill in 1904. Two types of Imperial insulators were used along the Rock Hill line: http://reference.insulators.info/publications/view/?id=3368&h0=rock&h1=hill The Arcade Mill was destoryed in 1996 by a fire. Mill village schools and churches are going to be saved by the community. |